Nauseous!

Today is not a good day. It’s my I feel sorry for myself day. Having surgery has triggered my MS to flare up. My left leg feels like someone has whacked it and since it is the one carrying the load it’s making moving around pretty hard. My hip also hurts and I’m not sure if the bursa that I had a steroid injection in is not happy or it’s an MS thing. 

I have to take the oxycodone to cope with the pain at the moment but it’s making me nauseous. It’s easy to say nausea is better than pain but when you’re not feeling the pain but you’re definitely feeling the nausea it’s hard to remember that. I’ve been using crutches to go to go to the bathroom because it’s easier than having to put on the knee crutch, walk to the bathroom, take the knee crutch off, manoeuvre to the toilet, try to get up off the toilet with no rails, get the knee crutch back on, make it back to my bed and take it off again. They are fine to go down stairs but I still can’t get my head around the getting up the stairs - getting my good foot up to the next step while balancing on the crutches. Crawling up the stairs seems easier until you reach the top and have to get from the floor to standing. 

I had a wobble last night and nearly landed on my foot but fortunately broke my fall with my head against the corner of the wall. I think the problem resulted from leaning back too far on my crutches. There’s upright and then there’s oh shit.  I’m hoping at two weeks I’ll get a cast because moon boot and bandages feels so vulnerable. Plus my toes are really screaming with nerve pain. Hopefully the gabapentin will hit that on the head. I ended up opening up my moonboot and putting an ice pack under my toes last night to get some relief. 

Having missed the physio has left me a little on the back foot (ha ha). I’m having to use dr google a lot to check to see what I should be doing. Elevation seems to be a big thing. I’ve got a pillow in the bed and so far it has stayed where it is supposed to and not ended up on the floor.

I’m still quite woozy and ready to fall asleep without warning. No good when you’re trying to drink a cup of hot tea. I’ve come to just in time to see the cup just about tipped sideways enough to pour tea all over my abdomen. A burn is just what I don’t need right now.

I really need to be more vocal about my MS making it more important to stay in hospital a bit longer. I’m always tossed out before the little old ladies who’ve had the same surgery. I think they focus on my age and forget that my brain is Swiss cheese. I’m also technically home alone, my sons are here but they are hard to get hold off when I need them. My husband had a running event on an island so camped over there. At least it meant I could wake up during the night and not have to worry about disturbing him.

Hopefully my nausea will settle and I’ll get a better hand on moving around and then I can settle down and read or watch Netflix. Nausea makes doing that harder. It is very preoccupying. Especially the possibility of having to get from my bed to the bathroom quickly. That’s just a recipe for a whole bunch of nope.